Anna Maria Cicero, biologist, is a Research Director of ISPRA, currently Head of the Directorate’s Sea Mission Structure. She was Director of ICRAM, the Central Institute for Applied Scientific and Technological Research at Sea, which became part of ISPRA in 2008.

She was, then, Head of the Marine Environment Quality Monitoring Department, from the date of establishment of ISPRA until its reorganization in 2017. From 2017 to 2018 she held the position of Director of the National Center of Laboratories in ISPRA. She is presently member of ACCREDIA’s Board, the Italian Accreditation Body. She is publications, manuals and guidelines Author, on issues related to the quality assessment of marine and coastal environment, a subject of study, research and institutional consultancy, at national ed international levels, which she has always dealt with.